Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limited Violence. The parade (which was duplicated in smaller sizes at Milan, Turin, Padua and Florence) put the Communists in a box. The delicate question facing them was just how much disorder it would be wise to make in the last phase of the campaign. Some violence would help them scare timid voters from the polls, especially Italy's heavily anti-Communist women. But if Communists went too far, they might only provide an excuse for the government to use its force and postpone the elections until the ERP starts to raise Italian living standards and thus lower Communist...
...cried: "Form a bulwark! . . . Defend Italy. . . . Vote for Italy. . . ." In Sardinia, before stocking-capped old peasants and natty coal miners fresh from their showers, he said with imposing understatement: "I am dissatisfied with the present state of public order." Before shepherds of Frosinone, he cried: "If it is a question of force, remember the force is in the hands of the government...
Latinos applauded, but only Peru's Victor Andrés Belaunde and two Nicaraguans shook the Secretary's hand. Everybody was a little stunned at Marshall's plain no on the question of U.S. economic aid. Said a Brazilian next morning: "For me, the conference ended yesterday...
There were other items on the agenda: a new hemispheric charter, the colonies question, a joint military staff committee. But now that economic debate was knocked in the head, it began to look as though the conference could handle them all in much less time than originally planned. At week's end, some of the delegates were even talking about getting up to New York for the U.N. General Assembly's Palestine session on April 16; the more conservative guessed they would adjourn...
Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...